Games that suck usually get hate.

And? Some of them are complaints about technical problems, not with how good or bad the game is overall.

Also, it is possible that they are simply riding the hate bandwagon. People on the internet told them it's bad, they expect it to be bad and they start playing by looking for things to verify that it's a bad game.

It's like watching a tv show and have no problem with an actor until people start hating on him and then all you see is how bad his acting is. Or, a closer example, the internet hating on The Big Bang Theory, but you haven't watched it yourself. When eventually you do, you go "laugh track, I knew it. This tv show blows". Whose opinion really is it if you're easily influenced by others but won't admit it to yourself (speaking in general of course).

Just some more food for thought.

People are passionnate. That's a good thing.

How can you determine whether something is a bandwagon exactly? I'm not saying that they only reason to hate it is the "bandwagon", but I'm certain that in many (not necessarily most) cases it is. Especially when  you talk to people and say they hate it even though they haven't played it at all.

But the most important thing is when you do actually play the game to not look for things that justify that hate. When you give it a fair chance and don't like it, fair enough. But when others' opinion have affected you so much that it's all you can think about, then maybe you didn't form that opinion all on your own.

Star Fox Zero & Metroid Prime Federation Force, deserve to be on that list alot more than any of the other games on it.

Dunno why Mirror's Edge is on that list. It didn't do well in reviews, but I don't see many people talking about it.
So I don't see the hate.

Oh look....more classic internet whining about a problem that doesn't exist. Isn't it funny how when everybody loves a game and is singing its praises nobody ever complains about bandwagons, and how all these people aren't qualified to give their opinion? But when the script gets flipped and the reception is negative...oh boy time to cry foul cus this shit ain't right.

You could also add Destiny and AC Unity to the list.

But as many others have said, the hate is usually justified. Some games have recovered thanks to patches, but that doesn't make the hate unjustified in retrospect.

But yeah the biggest part is hype. No hype, nobody cares, no hate. The more hype it gets, the better it needs to be to not receive hate. Uncharted can manage it, NMS can't.

Not true at all. If I had a penny for every time someone said "this game is overrated", I'd probably buy a house or something. I noticed that with The Last of Us the most.

Not really. Not in the real word anyway.

Sean Murray is swimming in cash at the moment. Why would he not hype his game as much as possible if it ends up selling extremely well?